--- title: Small raindrops are round, and bigger ones are flattened at the bott… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics description: Small raindrops are round, and bigger ones are flattened at the bottom like a burger bun as they fall; none is shaped like a teardrop. Who acts: Small raindrops, raindrops. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small raindrops, raindrops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:13 # text = Small raindrops are round, and bigger ones are flattened at the bottom like a burger bun as they fall; none is shaped like a teardrop. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 raindrops raindrop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 burger burger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 bun bun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 22 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 teardrop teardrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Small raindrops | | | | | round *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **flatten** | present · passive | | bigger ones | | the bottom like a burger bun | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | present | raindrops *= raindrop* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shape** | present · passive | | none | | | | like a teardrop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weather, lightning and storms, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/12/) - next →: [Weather, lightning and storms, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/15-weather-lightning-and-storms/)